Recent articles from publications based in United States.
History of MITby Julie Diop | Initiative for New Manufacturing16 Jun 2026
In May, the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) marked its first anniversary with MIT Manufacturing Week, four days of events that attracted more than 800 registrants including students...
The Markupby Roxsy Lin for American Community Media16 Jun 2026
In 2024, Kaiser Permanente announced the rollout of Abridge. Described in a press release as “ambient listening technology,” the AI-powered scribe is designed to help clinicians including mental...
Asterisk Magazineby Josh Martin16 Jun 2026
The development community treats war as inevitable. We’re learning how to pay to prevent it. Global development has a war problem.
Narrativelyby Ellen Eldridge12 Jun 2026
I thought my mother-in-law, Gail, would die in prison, denying my kids any real time with their paternal grandmother, and leaving me to have hard conversations with my husband, Russell, about...
History of MITby Lillian Eden | Department of Biology12 Jun 2026
In winter 1997, at age 60, when many researchers might be looking forward to retirement, Harriet Latham Robinson SM ’61, PhD ’65 was pursuing a faculty position as the chief of microbiology and...
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News12 Jun 2026
Debates about vaccines are a recurring feature of contemporary politics. It turns out they actually date back more than 200 years, since the development of the first smallpox vaccine.
History of MITby Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning11 Jun 2026
Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1.
Narrativelyby Narratively11 Jun 2026
We’re so excited about our latest project: a collection of true, deeply human stories about the moments and memories that unfold in the outdoor spaces we tend, share, and live alongside.
History of MITby Zach Winn | MIT News10 Jun 2026
The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in...
Palladium Magazineby Duncan Umphrey6 Jun 2026
Last month, Pope Leo XIV presented the papal encyclical Magnifica humanitas, laying out the Catholic Church’s definitive response to the crisis occasioned by the explosive growth of the AI...
History of MITby Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing5 Jun 2026
On April 30, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) initiative hosted a full-day research symposium examining how artificial intelligence...
History of MITby Media Lab4 Jun 2026
MIT, in collaboration with Georgia State University and a growing network of educational institutions, has announced expanded work under PATH (Pathways for AI Training and Hiring) — a multiyear...
Asterisk Magazineby Elizabeth Van Nostrand3 Jun 2026
We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides Elizabeth Van Nostrand For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting. “Unfounded and reckless” is how Dr.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze2 Jun 2026
Donald Trump’s $250 gift to launderers and criminals It has become a theme of this newsletter to lay out what is needed to tackle financial crime, and then to point out how the U.S.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze27 May 2026
AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud A top banker has got in trouble by referring to employees whose jobs will be replaced by AI as “lower-value human capital.” But he’s just saying the quiet...
Asterisk Magazineby Leah Libresco Sargeant27 May 2026
What global financial markets have in common with necromancers. Everything has a price. It’s a warning you might receive from a hedge fund trader, along with your “welcome to the firm” fleece vest.
Palladium Magazineby Snezana Gvozdenovic23 May 2026
In 1633, the year after Galileo Galilei published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, a book that made a comparative argument strongly favoring heliocentrism, his work was banned...
The Markupby Colin Lecher22 May 2026
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze20 May 2026
Crypto’s corrupt American dream The United States is inching closer to passing a gigantic piece of legislation to put cryptocurrencies on a secure footing, with the bill emerging unscathed from the...
Asterisk Magazineby Zilan Qian20 May 2026
China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
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